Sweden’s General Election concluded on Wednesday afternoon, as a coalition led by the Swedish Democrat Party (SD), secured a historic victory…

Undertaking Sweden’s first change of government since 2014, consequences are likely to proceed on the regulatory development of gambling. The centre-right coalition will be tasked with finalising ‘stage-2’ of the planned reform of Sweden’s online gambling marketplace, which relaunched in 2019.

The recommendations of Spelmarknadsutredningen (gambling market inquiry) were published in 2021, in which the report called for a specific licensing regime for software suppliers and online casino game developers.

Further recommendations urged the government to toughen advertising safeguards, in which it was recommended that Sweden apply a 06.00 to 21.00 block on the advertising of online casinos.